COW

COW is about playing and discussing wargames, and so is dominated by people playing wargames (often in early stages of development or one-off custom games) and providing feedback to their designers. Our definition of “wargames” is broad enough to include hex-and-counter style games, miniatures games (aka toy soldier games), map games, kriegsspiels, RPGs, matrix games and committee games. Playing commercial wargames as-is without any change is rare but not unheard off. We also have a colourful history of “lawn” games. There are usually a few discussion sessions and often a pre-conference battlefield walk. The conference runs from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon and is run on fairly “unconference” lines, so any member can propose a session, even during the conference, and members sign up for a game or session on the sign-up sheets on the main noticeboard at the conference. The photos from previous conferences and game listings below and Nugget Onsides and Offsides should give you a pretty good idea of what we get up to, but of course the best bet is to join and come along!!